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Saida Hodžić on Global Health Governance

by Jonah S. Rubin

On today's podcast, Saida Hodžić, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, discusses how a 2006 World Health Organization report about female genital cutting that was intended to counter alarmist discourses about female genital cutting ended up legitimizing them in the name of science.

Saida Hodžić's article, "Ascertaining Deadly Harms: Aesthetics and Politics of Global Evidence," was published in the February 2013 issue of Cultural Anthropology. The article and additional supplemental material can be found here.

We also hear from Betsey Brada, post-doctoral research associate at Princeton University's Center for Health and Wellbeing.

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